The Nintendo 64 is R4300-based game console with 4MB RAM. Its graphics chips were developed by Silicon Graphics for Nintendo. Right now this port has pipe dream status and will continue to be in that state until Nintendo decides to publish the necessary technical information. The question remains as to whether porting the Linux/MIPS code to this platform is a good idea.

Perhaps when we get some of the SGI video chipsets going properly, that may give us some clues for the N64? Not that I'm volunteering to make a driver though _________________Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter, VK4MSL)
I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere...

i dont know if this is worth mentioning but elf linux (built for pre 286 machines) i had it running on a tandy 1000rl back in the day dont know the bit of the cpu tho_________________print pack"C*",split/\D+/,`echo "16iII*o\U@{$/=$z;[(pop,pop,unpack"H*",<>
)]}\EsMsKsN0[lN*1lK[d2%Sa2/d0<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<J]dsJxp"|dc`
while [ 1 ] ; do echo "*" | telnet ip.of.print.er 9100 ; done

I've thought about trying this on my 286, at the moment the machine in question is happily running Minix 2.0 (even fired it up the other night -- still works fine after all this time...)

ELF is a binary executable format, the successor of A.OUT. It's used by modern versions of Linux as well as *BSD (except OpenBSD prior to v3.4 which uses A.OUT), Solaris, Syllable and probably many other operating systems._________________Stuart Longland (a.k.a Redhatter, VK4MSL)
I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere...

Gentoo/MIPS Cobalt developer, Mozilla herd member.

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Maybe µClinux could do the job. I can't check it out now as their site is down, but it has been designed to run on 8 and 16 bit microcontrollers. As many computers are also based on the 6502 (apple II was as far as I remember, thomson TO7, MO5 and others too) their might be some piece of code to take from other projects..._________________never forget that a cray is the only one arch that can run an endless loop in only 4 hours